Interview with Professor Padraig O'Malley, Forum for Cities in Transition Director, at the end of the Derry-Londonderry Conference on 26th May 2011

The Forum for Cities in Transition hosted its second annual conference at the Guildhall, Derry-Londonderry, May 23rd-26th 2011.

This year's conference brought together international delegates from 12 cities to share information, discuss models of best practice, examine ways of improving community relations, and identify programmes and projects that delegates developed and declared on the final day of the conference to implement in their home cities or as joint projects within their sister cities. Over 30 outcomes were pledged and will be delivered by the Forum cities.

For complete coverage of this year's conference please click on Derry-Londonderry 2011 pages above.

Forum Director, Professor Padraig O'Malley, discusses the 2011 FCT conference with WBUR on 17th June 2011:

The Forum for Cities in Transition is an international network of mayors, councillors, municipal officials, business people, and representatives of the voluntary and community sector.

The Forum works on the principle that cities that are in conflict or have emerged from conflict are in the best position to help other cities in the same situation.

The Forum for Cities in Transition is an initiative of the John Joseph Moakley Chair at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The Secretariat is shared by the Northern Ireland Foundation and the Moakley Chair.

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